Small and medium-sized firms typically obtain capital via bank financing. They often rely on a mixture of relationship … show that the incidence of inefficient credit termination and subsequent firm liquidation is contingent on the borrower …'s quality and on the relationship bank's information precision. Generally, heterogeneous multiple banking leads to fewer …

We analyse to what extent the accrual anomaly is related to the choice of the accounting system as well as firm … first corroborate former results indicating that the accrual anomaly is also present in Germany. However, this anomaly seems … reduce the accrual anomaly, shareholder monitoring is not. Apart from offering evidence related to the cross …

) abilities and on the sectoral concentration risk of a credit portfolio. In this paper, we examine in the first part if … cooperative banks. In the second part we measure the overall effect of better monitoring and the associated higher sectoral credit … concentrations on the credit risk of the portfolio. Our empirical results suggest that specialization benefits overcompensate the …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank's credit risk exposure … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its … interaction between capital adequacy regulation and credit risk transfer with credit default swaps (CDS) including its effect on …

This article presents the results of stress tests of the Czech banking sector conducted using models of credit risk and … credit growth broken down by sector. The use of these models enables the stress tests to be linked to the CNB's official … of credit risk for individual sectors. Based on the analysis, an answer is sought to the question of whether the observed …

behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. The bank is exposed to credit risk and may use credit default swaps (CDS …) for hedging purposes. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk-sensitive way: Compared … trading is found to interact with the former effect when regulation accepts CDS as an instrument to mitigate credit risk …

share of bad borrowers is small. Borrowers with good credit records, on the other hand, would prefer information sharing …

developing a new methodology to separate firms' credit shocks from loan supply shocks, using a vast sample of matched bank …-firm lending data. We decompose loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks … bank loan supply net of borrower characteristics and general credit conditions - can have large impacts on aggregate loan …

We find that firms with greater tax avoidance incur higher spreads when obtaining bank loans. This finding is robust in … avoidance also incur more stringent non-price loan terms, incur higher at-issue bond spreads, and prefer bank loans over public …

emphasizes the need for harmonizing bank regulation and supervision. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical … business climate survey that reports the perceptions of German firms' credit availability between 2003 and 2006. Our results …, differences in bank regulations may have speeded up the cross-border lending. …